People’s Court indicts Bolsonaro for managing the pandemic

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São Paulo, September 1 (EFE). – The Permanent Court of Peoples concluded that the Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, committed crimes against humanity and human rights violations due to his questionable management in the face of the Covid epidemic, which has so far left 684,000 deaths and about 34.5 million cases.

The symbolic sentence after the public trial against the Brazilian head of state on Thursday was read at a hearing at the University of São Paulo by members of this international court of opinion, established in Rome in 1979 and whose decisions are moral in character. …but it’s not legal, because it doesn’t impose penalties.

The far-right leader was tried this year during the 50th session of the Permanent Court of the Peoples (TPP) in response to a complaint lodged in May by various Brazilian human rights organizations, such as the Arens Committee and the Indigenous Joint. The peoples of Brazil.

The symbolic jury of the organization concluded that Bolsonaro directly contributed to the deaths of a large number of Brazilians due to omissions and wrongdoings of his government in the fight against the epidemic.

The Army Reserve Commander came in to treat COVID-19 as a “little flu.” delay in purchasing vaccines; He questioned the effectiveness of vaccinations, and opposed the social distancing measures recommended around the world.

“Bolsonaro has been proven to have committed two illegal acts: a serious violation of human rights and a crime against humanity because he chose a health policy incompatible with isolation, infection prevention and vaccination,” according to the verdict read by Argentine Eugenio Raul. Zfaroni, currently a member of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

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The ruling adds that the Brazilian government’s management of the epidemic “deliberately caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people”.

“There is no doubt that thousands of lives were lost (in Brazil) due to the decisions of the government headed by Bolsonaro. It cannot be considered that this fraud was the ultimate, because the deaths were caused by the intent to give preference to the economy in favor of harming human life,” adds the ruling.

However, the court dismissed the charge of genocide against Bolsonaro, citing difficulties in proving that the president had intended to cause the deaths.

The ruling recommends that the plaintiffs file a complaint with the International Criminal Court.

The jury responsible for the conviction was made up of famous international judges such as former Italian judge Luigi Ferragolli. Argentinian Zavaroni and Alejandro Machia; Portugal’s Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Luis Moita, Switzerland’s Jan Ziegler and Britain’s Vivian Stern.

The conclusions of the People’s Court are similar to those of the Brazilian Senate committee that investigated the management of the epidemic for just over six months and ended in October last year with a very harsh report that brought very serious accusations against the leader. The far right.

However, most of these charges were dismissed by the Supreme Court or suspended by the Attorney General’s Office.

Bolsonaro’s administration in the face of the pandemic has become one of the main causes of controversy in the October 2 presidential election campaign, in which the president aspires to be re-elected. EFE

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